Water-closet.



H. S. RUMSEY.

WATER CLOSET.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB..14, 1908.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

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HORACE S. RUMSEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application filed March 14, 1908. Serial No. 421,184.

To all. whom a may 6mm Be it known that I, HORACE. S. RUMs'EY, a citizenof the United States, residing at St.

Louis, in the State of Missouri,'have invented a new and usefulImprovement in -Water- Closets, of which the following is aspecification. i

This invention relates to water closets and of water closets, whoseflushing tankis not elevated.

The object of the'invention is to improve upon those water closetswherein the flushing I line 22, Fig. 1.

so kn -is a horizontal transverse section of said closet taken in theplane indicated by the The invention embraces the combination of theflushing tank with any of the well own water closet bowls, whetherformed of iron, porcelainior any other material and of whatever internalstructure. The draw' I ing, however, represents a bowl and tank as withthe-u per wall. I pur ose o constructedof orcelain and shows the twoparts-'as if mol ed. in one piece. The bowl is' indicated at 4, the seatat 5,.and the interior of the tank at 6, said tank be' by an extensionof the base 7 of the owl and an encircling side wall 8 built thereon andmade integral at its upper edge with the up er edge of the bowl.

he closet bowl has the usual flushing passa es 9, 10 and 11 and outlet12 and the seat is hinged to the bowl in the usualmanner, as indicatedat 3. Into the flushing tank 6, a

pipe'13 extends to within a short distance.

rom the bottom of the tank, said pipe bein sealed at its upper end inthe upper wall 0 the tank. In the present instance such sealing iseffected by makin the pipe 13 integral pipe 13 is for the tan To controlthe filling of the tank and the emptying thereof for flushing purposes,a specially constructed valve casing is used specification, Figure 1flushing forced to its seat and,

formed leading water into and out of the trated, wherein 14 represents atubular valve casing provided at its ends respectively with plugs 15 and16 seated upon gaskets, as is usual in making water tight joints. Inthis valve casing there is located the reciproeating inlet or flutedstem, and the reciprocating flushing valve 18, whose stem 19 rotrudesthrough a stufiing boxin cap 15. his stem 19 is also prolonged in theopposite direction and enmechanism 20, which has an inclined heaadjustably connected, through nut 21, to the base by which it is securedto the seat. The connection of the valve casing to the water supply maybe made through a nipple, substantially as indicated at 22.

The drawing represents this integral water.

closet with'the parts thereof in their normal ppfiition as whenfiin enthe pressure of water is on, the inlet valve 17 is eld to its seatas-show'n and the valve 18 is held off its seat and the seat 5 1s heldin a slightly elevated position by the engagement of the valve stem 19with the valve tripping device 20. When the seat is depressed theflushing valve 18 is by the engagement of the extension of its stem withthe stem of valve 17, the latter is unseated and the water from the mainis allowed to enter pi e 13 and pass into tank 6. In doing so, t e airin said tank is compressed until its tension e uals that of the pressureof the water in t e mains. Then when the weight is removed from the seatthe valve 17 will -take its seat and the valve 18 will be unseated, duein artto the pressure of the air in the tank orcing the water therefromthrough pipe 13 into the flushing passages of the bowl, and, in part tothe pressure of the water in the mains acting on valve 17 to seat it.The water will continue to flow from the tank through pipe'l3 throughthe flushing assages and out through the outlet of the bowl until theair compressed in the upper part of the tank has reached atmos hericpressure. The parts will then be in t e position shown in the drawin sand the usual and may be ofsubstantially the form illusvalve 17 withtheusual squared I ters a depression 1n the stem of valve 17. Dependingfrom seat 5 is a valve trippin place and ready for use.

water seal will be left in the owl and all will the combination with thebow and seat, of a flushin tank built around thebowl and ining into thefl ushinp tank and the flushing tegral t erewith, a horizontal valvecasing'in passages of the bow the stem of one of sai the upper edge ofthe combined Walls of the valves engaging the stem of the other, andbowl and tank, Which casing communicates tripping mechanism attached tothe seat for 15 5 With the water sup 1y, with the flushing moving saidvalves to filL the tank, the retank, and with the ushingass'ages of theverse movement of the valve being efieoted bowl, a reciprocatinspringiess feed valve by the pressure of the water in the mains.situated in the casing etween the inlet of the HORACE S. RUMSEY. Watersupply and the opening into the flush- Witnesses:

10 in tank, a reciprocating springless flushing EVERETT H. SMITH,

va ve situated in the casing etween the open- STANLEY. 'STONER.

